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A Philosophical Appraisal On The Igbo Traditional System Of Child Upbringing, Vis-À-vis The Contemporary System
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1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
People are identified through their
culture, likewise any nation or people that compromises its culture or
ways of life runs the risk of being misplaced with other nationalities.
It is on this line of thought that the researcher envisages the future
of some African tribes and nationalities, whose cultures had been
adulterated, and cannot be distinctly distinguished from others. This
has been as a result of the contact with the Western-American culture
and civilization.
Frankly speaking, going through Igbo cultures, one
would testify to the fact that many of these Igbo cultures are far
better than those of the foreign. At least a review of Igbo traditional
way of raising up children will say it all. But the Igbo people, after
many years of colonialism and absorption of the foreign cultures, hook,
line and sinker, now arrived at a conclusion with the whites that their
ways of life are crude, barbaric and devilish. They (the Igbos) take
the white’s cultures as superior, and oblivious of the truism that as
environment and climate differ, so also do people and their culture
differ. The culture one people cherishes, may not be cherished by the
other. Both the Igbo traditional way of raising up children and the
contemporary forms are good, but there should be a boundary where the
influence of each on the other will stop.
1.3 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This
research will cover all Igbo speaking regions, the people who share a
common language known as ‘Igbo’ and a common culture known as
‘omenala’. These two features distinguish the Igbos from any other
ethnic group in Nigeria. The Igbos, occupy an area of some 15, 800
square miles and are found between latitudes 5 to 7 degrees north and
longitudes 6 to 8 degrees east. They lie in the tropics and as such
have a tropical type of climate3
In 1982, the population of Igbo
people was about 10.13 million people and they occupy the heart of
southeast Nigeria, though some can also be found in the south like in
Rivers, Etche, Asaba and Agbor. In this study, we shall approximately
articulate the views of all these people on child upbringing in Igbo
traditional way, and compare them with those of the present society.
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